Todd R. Weiss

Google Glass could someday offer trendy frames from famous makers such as Ray-Ban, Oakley, Vogue-Eyewear and Alain Mikli under a partnership unveiled with eyeglass frame vendor The Luxottica Group. The deal was announced on the Google Glass Google+ page on March 24, giving future Glass owners some very cool fashion possibilities as the development of […]

Google wants to help and encourage more small, local businesses to get a presence online through its “Get Your Business Online Week” events going on virtually through Saturday, March 29. Through a series of two-hour virtual workshops being conducted online in communities in 43 states, Google is presenting business cases for being online, helping with […]

Google is seeking college applicants for its seventh annual Google Policy Fellowships program, which offers students unique opportunities to work on Internet and technology policy matters in locations around the world while on summer break. Applications for this summer’s 10-week program must be received by Google by 3 a.m. ET on April 15, according to […]

All incoming and outgoing Gmail messages will use encrypted HTTPS connections to better protect them from interception by attackers or spying under a new policy Google recently announced for its Gmail services. The new policy was unveiled by Nicolas Lidzborski, the security engineering lead for Google’s Gmail service, in a March 20 post on the […]

Google Glass devices have been available to beta users since April 2013 when the first early test units were distributed for use outside the company, but the devices continue to have a mixed reaction from the general public. Glass devices have received some serious criticism while being used in public, including outright bans in some […]

Google Street View Takes On the Wild Colorado River by Todd R. Weiss 36-Mile Rapid Start here and feel the power and the majesty of the Colorado River by sitting in a motorized raft with the Trekkers in this incredible action shot. You can almost feel the splash of cold water on your face. Vulcan’s […]

Gmail users who wanted to band together to take Google to court over its scanning practices of Gmail messages won’t be able to fight the search giant as a group in a class-action lawsuit. Instead, they’ll have to take Google on individually if they want to sue over the email scanning done by the company. […]

Google has announced new updates for its Chrome Web browser, Chrome for iOS and Chrome OS stable and beta releases as part of its normal schedule of application updates for users. The regularly scheduled updates repair bugs, improve stability and add new features. The biggest news in the latest round of updates is the release […]

Google’s Chromecast television dongles will now be sold in Canada and 10 nations in Europe as the company expands the global reach of the low-cost video-streaming devices. The availability of Chromecast devices in Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom was announced by Mario Queiroz, vice president of […]

Google’s Cloud Platform has just received some new features for developers, including a new Google APIs Client Library for .NET and improved documentation for using third-party Puppet, Chef, Salt and Ansible configuration-management tools. The new Google APIs Client Library for .NET, which is now generally available from the company, was announced by Dan Ciruli, Google […]